In case the name Ethel Tibbits doesn’t ring a bell, she was a women’s activist and former owner/editor of the Richmond Review community newspaper for over 30 years. There is a scholarship provided each year in her name by the Richmond Community Foundation to a woman, for the purposes of providing education and opportunities to improve the … Read more
The Richmond Food Security Society is looking for volunteers to help out with their Get Rooted! Growing Youth Leaders in the Food Movement. The project is aimed at engaging and mobilizing youth to address the root causes of food insecurity and build a fair and sustainable food future. There are two different roles to be … Read more
Did you miss physician and poverty/health advocate Dr. Gary Bloch‘s presentation back in September, when he was speaking about curing social disease at the Carnegie Community Centre? If so, not to worry: here is the video in its entirety, courtesy of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.
Would you like to work with vulnerable youth and help them learn the basics of cooking and healthy eating? The Richmond Food Security Society is looking for a kitchen facilitator for the Stir it Up program. Interested parties should contact Erika Simms, more information can be found here.
Going back a few years, the Richmond Poverty Response Committee and other local community organizations hosted “Building Hope: Richmond Affordable Housing Forum” on Oct. 30, 2010. Just like its name, Building Hope provided a venue for attendees to talk about, and become educated on, various affordable housing strategies focused on the city at the time. To celebrate the … Read more
A note from our friends at the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition regarding child support clawback for single mothers on welfare: BC’s government currently has a policy of taking off child support dollar for dollar from single parents’ income assistance benefit. By taking that money away, the provincial government is depriving children living in lone-parent … Read more
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